How do I delete Windows?

[dalekphalm]

54 minutes ago, BiscuitMassacre said:

Formatting is better than cleaning. Cleaning just wipes the current partitions. Formatting deletes all partitions and 're-formats' them.

Just an FYI, formatting a drive does not delete or erase any partitions, at least not inherently. You can have applications that will delete the partitions, re-partition, then formation for you, but that's not a given.

 

In this context, "cleaning" refers to deleting all partitions and reformatting them. Whether you decide to do a quick format or a full format is up to the user.

[asand1]

Just now, Litargirio said:

@asand1 Sorry I have this bad habit of not reading posts thoroughly before replying and thought you meant that he should nuke his SSD, my bad.

No prob, be maore careful or someone might get butthurt lol.

 

BTW how do you link another member withou quoting, I could never find the function?

 

 

 

[BiscuitMassacre]

Just now, dalekphalm said:

Just an FYI, formatting a drive does not delete or erase any partitions, at least not inherently. You can have applications that will delete the partitions, re-partition, then formation for you, but that's not a given.

 

In this context, "cleaning" refers to deleting all partitions and reformatting them. Whether you decide to do a quick format or a full format is up to the user.

Like I said, I don't know all the details. Just find a way to delete all partitions. 

 

[dalekphalm]

Just now, BiscuitMassacre said:

Like I said, I don't know all the details. Just find a way to delete all partitions. 

 

There are of course multiple methods to achieve that. Using CMD and Diskpart is one of them. Though for people who prefer GUI's, this is not ideal.

 

Using the Disk Management utility is another way, though it's not necessarily intuitive, and a lot of the steps you have to do independently.

 

Getting a Partition Manager application would be the "easiest" way to do it, as something like Paragon Partition Manager Free is very easy to navigate, and you can "string" actions together and it will do them in batches.

[Litargirio]

3 minutes ago, asand1 said:

BTW how do you link another member withou quoting, I could never find the function?

First you type

 

@

 

then you type their name afterwards

 

@asand1

 

like that. When you do, it should give you a popup with the name of the person that you can click to link their name. It's kind of similar to Facebook.

[asand1]

@Litargirio

Thanks man

 

[asand1]

Anyway, If anyone here hasn't tried Dban its awesome. You can wipe hard drives and have no fear of reselling them. 

[dalekphalm]

1 minute ago, asand1 said:

Anyway, If anyone here hasn't tried Dban its awesome. You can wipe hard drives and have no fear of reselling them. 

DBan is great, but there are many other utilities that do the same thing.

[daniielrp]

1. Open Disk Management.
2. identify the disk you want to wipe.
3. Right click each partition and delete them, with a windows disk you'll normally have 2-4.
4. Once all partitions are deleted, you should have a big chunk of unpartitioned space. Right click and create new volume.
5. Leave all the default options and just click next/done/finish until done.
6. You'll now have a blank disk ready to use, and can move files across to it.